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Car companies are beginning to use AI tools to radically speed up their development process, which could change the cars we drive forever — and have some big effects on the people who make them now. Verge contributor Tim Stevens explains. Then, The Verge’s Hayden Field catches us up on Codex vs. Claude Code, Anthropic vs. the US government, the vibes at OpenAI, and more, before helping answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about whether all the recent tech layoffs are really about AI.
0:00 Intro
2:17 Today’s AI Agenda
3:12 How Cars Get Designed
6:53 AI Speeds Up Design
11:35 Clay Models Still Matter
12:34 Jobs Pipeline Risk
16:42 Software Defined Cars
18:59 Regulation and Safety
23:13 Will AI Homogenize Design
25:50 Slate Truck Update
32:47 Codex vs Claude Code
34:59 Super App Strategy Shift
38:10 B2B Growth Playbook
40:41 OpenAI Vibe Check
42:19 PR vs AI Doomerism
45:57 Pentagon Deals Exclude Anthropic
51:18 Mythos Reality
54:02 RIP AGI?
1:00:30 Hotline ROI on Layoffs
1:09:23 Wrap Up
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